Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Adulterers
The friendship
Enmity
Whosoever
Is the
General references
Bible References
Adulterers
Matthew 12:39
"Wicked and faithless generation!" He replied, "they clamour for a sign, but none shall be given to them except the sign of the Prophet Jonah.
Matthew 16:4
A wicked and faithless generation are eager for a sign; but none shall be given to them except the sign of Jonah." and He left them and went away.
The friendship
John 7:7
It is impossible for the world to hate you; but me it does hate, because I give testimony concerning it that its conduct is evil.
John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.
John 17:14
I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, there is no love in his heart for the Father.
Enmity
Romans 8:7
Abandonment to earthly things is a state of enmity to God. Such a mind does not submit to God's Law, and indeed cannot do so.
Whosoever
Galatians 1:10
For is it man's favour or God's that I aspire to? Or am I seeking to please men? If I were still a man-pleaser, I should not be Christ's bondservant.
Is the
Luke 19:27
But as for those enemies of mine who were unwilling that I should become their king, bring them here, and cut them to pieces in my presence.'"
John 15:23
He who hates me hates my Father also.
Romans 5:10
For if while we were hostile to God we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, it is still more certain that now that we are reconciled, we shall obtain salvation through Christ's life.
General references
John 15:18
If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.